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of this ciiiinty. wbo went to Alaska to engage iu 

 the lumbef business about six years ago, was 

 killed in an accident at his lumber operations, 

 May 21. The body was shipped to Bristol for 

 burial and arrived here June 3. Young Crussell 

 was a member of the firm of Crussell & Ewbanks. 

 He was superiutending the loading of logs in 

 the mountains when a log fell on him and he 

 was killed almost instantly. The body was ac- 

 companied back by the deceased's partner, Wal- 

 ter Ewbank of Kentucky. 



Horace M. Hoskins, president of the H. M. 

 Hoskins Lumber Company of this city, and vice 

 president of the Little Creek Lumber Company, 

 was married Tuesday, June 4, to Miss Mary E. 

 McKlnney, at the home of the bride's parents at 

 Lynchburg, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Hoskins will be 

 at home in Bristol after a honeymoon trip. Mr. 

 Hoskins is one of the best known young lumber- 

 men in this section. He started in the business 

 with English & Co. at Knoxville about ten years 

 ago. He was in tlie business in New York and 

 later in London. In 1904 he became sales man- 

 ager in the offices of J. A. Wilkinson in this 

 city. He held this position until tlie latter part 

 of 1906, when he organized the H. M. Hoskins 

 Lumber Company, wliich now has offices in the 

 First National Bank Building. 



The Tug River Lumber Company of this city 

 is erecting a band mill on its timi>er property 

 in Scolt county. Virginia, which it will operate 

 in addition to several circular mills. The com- 

 pany has lately purchased additional timber iu 

 that section. 



Charles H. Fuller of JIacon, Ga., representing 

 the Massee & Felton Lumber Company, was in 

 the city on business last week. 



The Tipp City Lumber Company, recently or- 

 ganized here by Paul Cline, J. M. Sanders, E. A. 

 Scott and others, has installed several circular 

 mills on its timber property on the South & 

 n'estern railway near Altapass. N. C. 



The Little Creek Lumber Company of this city 

 has purchased a 20.000-acre tract of land in 

 I'ulaski county. Virginia, and proposes to at once 

 install a big baud mill. The company has leased 

 a line of railroad traversing the property. The 

 road is standard gauge and eight miles long. 



The plant of the Empire Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, \\hich was destroyed at Elizabethton about 

 two weeks ago with a loss of about $60,000. will, 

 it is believed here, be rebuilt. The company's 

 loss was reduced by an insurance policy to the 

 extent of about $21,000. 



The Hassinger Lumber Company has put its 

 big band mill at Azen, Va., in operation. This 

 company owns a vast area of timber land in the 

 White Top mountain section and an extension 

 of the Virginia-Carolina railway, known as the 

 A irginia-Carolina Southern, has been built from 

 'Fayior's Valley to Azen by the company. 



"Of course I cau only speak from my own ex- 

 perience — I am doing the best business I have 

 ever done." said J. A. Wilkinson this week. "I 

 find the market in fine shape. I put on no less 

 than a half dozen new inspectors within the 

 past two weeks and have all the business I can 

 handle." 



Cincinnati. 



The Supreme court decision sustaining th.j 

 Interstate Commerce Commission against the 

 Southern railway, in which H. H. Tift of Tifton, 

 Ga., was the original petitioner, means that the 

 Southern will have to refund at least $35,000 

 and possibly .S.'JO.OOO in overcharges to Cincin- 

 nati lumbermen and many times that amount to 

 shippers in general. The case started four years 

 ago when the southern roads announced an in- 

 crease of 2 cents per 100 feet in rates on pine 

 lumber from the south to Ohio river points. 

 II. H. Tift, representing the lumber interests, 

 complained, and the commission sustained them, 

 prohibiting the increase. The railroads appealed 

 to the United States courts of Georgia. The 

 court held that, pending final decision, the roads 

 could collect the 2 cents overcharge, but a bond 

 of $300,000 must be given to protect the ship- 



pers' interests in case they won the final decision. 

 The victory for the shippers in the Supreme 

 court decision means that the overcharge was 

 illegal, and that all the money so collected since 

 action was started, must be refunded. The 

 amount they will have to disgorge is estimated at 

 close to half a million dollars. 



"Within the next sixty days the Maley, 

 'Thompson & Moffett Lumber Company will be 

 located in new headquarters,'" said Thomas J. 

 Moffett in a recent interview. "The erection 

 of the new concrete structure is progressing rap- 

 idly and within the above-said time we will be 

 comfortably stationed in our new home. During 

 the last three years we have been compelled to 

 vacate our headquarters because of tires, but by 

 constructing a concrete building it is hoped that 

 we will be protected from the fire bugs and not 

 forced to locate elsewhere in a hurry. Our be- 

 ing compelled to locate elsewhere has not 

 cramped business to any extent but has prevent- 

 ed us from putting lumber in stock. We have 

 stacked up a large number of logs, however, and 

 by the time our new sawmill is erected the pile 

 will almost double itself and will keep double 

 force hard at work for many months to cut it. 

 The new structure is much larger than the for- 

 mer one so that we will be able to do business 

 on a broader scale and incidentally push things 

 so as to compare favorably with the work of the 

 eastern office." 



The new upper sawmill of C. Crane & Co. on 

 Eastern avenue has been completed, and is rated 

 one of the best in the Queen City. Fires dur- 

 ing the last year made it necessary for the con- 

 cern to build a number of new sawmills and now 

 they are about all completed. The large lum- 

 ber piles In the company's yards situated on the 

 bank of the Ohio river have caused much com- 

 ment. The concern is so situated as to have ad- 

 vantage of excellent shipping facilities ; it is 

 ivithin a stone's throw of the Pennsylvania rail- 

 road and very near the river, thus giving both 

 rail and water service. 



Benjamin Dulweber, who has been suffering 

 with stomach trouble for some time, is rapidly 

 improving at the Good Samaritan hospital. He 

 expects to return to active business within a 

 few weeks. During his absence J. Putman as- 

 sumes charge. 



The Coppel Furniture Company of Dayton has 

 been granted Incorporation papers with a capital 

 stock of $200,000. The Incorporators were Fred 

 Coppel, Auua L. Coppel, Harry F. Coppel, Carl 

 L. Coppel and Cora M. Coppel. 



Messrs. Bender and Miller, members of the 

 Board of Public Service, have returned from a 

 visit to Indianapolis, where they Inspected 

 wooden block paving. Both were much Impressed 

 with It, and now It Is highly probable that many 

 Cincinnati streets will be paved with wooden 

 blocks. 



The Brazos Lumber Company, Paulding, O., 

 has been incorporated with a capital stock of 

 $27,500 by James Gasscr, C. H. Allen, D. J. 

 llarkless, John A. Mohr and F. F. Goodwin. 



The next monthly meeting of the Manufac- 

 turers' Club will be held at the Queen City 

 Club, June 10 Instead of June 3. The speakers 

 of the evening are M. B. Farrin and Edward 

 Hargrave. both of whom will talk on their re- 

 cent foreign trips. Mr. Farrin visited Egypt and 

 Mr. Hargrave made the trip around Cape Horn. 

 Both men are excellent speakers and a large 

 evening Is promised. 



Dr. Thomas M. Stewart, president of the Axix 

 Coal and Timber Land Company, and Dr. E. C. 

 Buck, secretary, left recently for New York to 

 arrange for the final details of taking over a 

 large tract of coal and timber land In fee sim- 

 ple for themselves and associates. 



During the month of May a larger volume of 

 business has been transacted than for some time ; 

 a big increase was recorded over the same month 

 of last year. The total number of cars received 

 during that time was 9,312, compared with last 

 vear 6.847. The shipments show a healthy In- 



crease, being 7,274 as compared with 5,.'jy8 of 

 last year. The above will serve to emphasize the 

 fact that the lumber trade in this city Is very 

 good. 



Chester L. Korn of the Farrin-Korn Lumber . 

 Company left last week for a business trip to 

 Mississippi and other points In that vicinity. He 

 expects to return within a week. 



The large delegation of Cincinnati lumbermen 

 that attended the convention of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association at Atlantic City 

 have returned well pleased with everything that 

 was transacted. The convention was In session 

 but two days, but local lumbermen did not return 

 until a week or so after. Some of whom spent 

 time on the seashore while others attended to 

 business while in the East. 



A. Fenton of the Ohio Veneer Company has 

 returned from a most successful business trip 

 South and Southwest. "Business In the South is 

 good," said Mr. Fenton, "but Cincinnati I think 

 has a little the best of it." 



William E. Delaney, general manager of the 

 Kentucky Lumber Company, returned recently 

 from a business trip to Burnslde, Ky., and soon 

 after departed for Williamsburg, where the com- 

 pany has another sawmill. He expects to return 

 to the local office within a week or ten days. 



George Llttleford of the Llttleford Lumber 

 Company has returned to his office after an ab- 

 sence of several weeks' suffering with a severe 

 attack of typhoid fever. 



President Thomas J. Moffett of the Cincinnati 

 Lumbermen's Club Is arranging the standing 

 committees for the year and will announce them 

 within the next week. The annual outing of the 

 club will be held some time in June, the exact 

 date not being as yet set. 



The William T. Rosser Lumber Company of 

 Arcanum. O., was Incorporated last week with a 

 capital stock of $40,000 by Carl A. Rosser, W. 

 S. Kosser, Sarah A. Rosser, Nona B. Rosser and 

 Wllilain H. Francis. 



Cincinnati lumber dealers were much wrought 

 up over the raise in freight rates on lumber 

 which went into effect June 1. The raise ap- 

 plies to all central and eastern territory and 

 amount to 5 cents per 100 pounds, making the 

 new rate 2o cents. 



St. Louis. 



Lafayette Lamb, of C. Lamb & Sons, Clinton, 

 la., paid his regular spring visit to St. Louis 

 recently, accompanied by several personal friends. 

 They came on Mr. Lamb's handsome steamer, 

 the "Wanderer," which is a marvel among pleas- 

 ure boats. It Is electric-lighted and finished in 

 mahoganj-. 



George Cottrill of the American Hardwood 

 Lumber Company has returned from a business 

 trip to Ohio. 



W. W. Dings of the Garetson-Greason Lumber 

 Company visited the company's plants at Flsk 

 and (/ampbell, Mo., and Prescott, Ark., recent- 

 ly. He spent ten days in that section and 

 says that conditions are still very unfavorable 

 and It win be some time before the woods will 

 dry out. 



W. R. Chlvvls has lately shipped a car of ' 

 w^alnut to Rotterdam, Holland, and another to 

 Belfast, Ireland. He is handling a large amount 

 of this wood, and also of gum. 



B. D. Hussey has the contract for furnishing 

 railroad ties and timber to the Missouri, Kan- 

 sas & Texas railroad ; also crossing planks and 

 other stock. He employs the cuts of three 

 sawmills for these purposes. The road uses 

 over 1,500,000 annually. 



The International Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany of St. Louis and Mobile has purchased the 

 business of Y'ounce & Gracey Co., at luka. Miss. 

 Several hundred thousand feet of lumber are on 

 hand at that place, and the deal puts the Inter- 

 national company In an excellent position to 

 take care of requirements for all sorts of stock 

 with dispatch. 



